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- From: ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Cynical friendliness and a poem
- Message-ID: <32VyXB5w165w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 04:38:01 GMT
- Sender: news@cybernet.cse.fau.edu
- Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida
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- Ekho finally makes her way over to Doug and the "lurking" Slash M.
- "Greetings to the two of you. I am pleased to make your aquaintance. I am
- also pleased that things are sorted out between everyone involved. I would
- have told you to kiss and make up, but I've been too busy taking the VR
- version of Cybernet slowly and painfully apart with my laser probe for
- daring to prevent the receipt of postings by my associate and myself. I
- have noted that you have a talent for poetry, Doug. I enjoyed your postings
- very much. I also found great inspiration in the statements about loving
- being living, and you being among the undead. Thank you. I feel that I
- must contribute to the creativity, hence:
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- The desolation of my mind is such that
- even the emotion has abandoned me, leaving me
- absolutely barren.
- I feel no grief, no hate, no regrets or sentiment.
- I just exist.
- I still exist.
- Why do I still exist?
-
- It is said that grief at someone's death is caused by
- the loss of that person's hope to be happy,
- the loss of the hope that that person can make you happy,
- the reminder that the loss can become yours at any time.
- But death is a relief.
- a relief that that person doesn't have to go through anymore pain,
- a relief that that person can't possibly betray you,
- a reminder that soon your life-grief will end.
- And yet, I still exist.
- I live on, and on, and on,
- while others are relieved of
- their pain,
- their shattered hopes,
- their lives.
-
- Instead of relief, I am forced to
- relive. Live when I want to be
- relieved.
- Such a small difference in a word, but that difference is what I am
- denied. If I had
- died on Gauda Prime, I would be barren no more.
-
- I have relieved many people,
- some of them deserved that relief,
- others should have lived.
- I see that now.
- It is a release.
- I would have released Servalan before.
- Now, she will remain chained... to life.
- To desolation.
-
- I am relieved.
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-
-
- -Ekho
-
- Yours in Time and Space
-